[Evolution-users] Unable to login to gmail on a fresh install

[Milan Crha]

On Wed, 2025-09-10 at 02:18 +0200, Tim MCCONNELL via evolution-users
wrote:
> "ERROR: Caught a segmentation fault while loading plugin file:
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstva.so"

	Hi,
if I understand it correctly, when you configure the new account and it
tells you "OAuth2 secret not found" (not a great error message,
especially when it's a fresh account for which you should not have any
secret stored anyway, but still an accurate error message), you click a
button to "Reconnect", which opens the window with the OAuth2 wizard
(or it's done on its own, without the need for the Reconnect click),
but the content of this window is empty. The terminal shows the error
quoted above, but Evolution itself does not crash, there crashed
something else.

Being it it, then it's the WebKitWebProcess or something from the
WebKitGTK what crashed, and because it crashed it cannot provide you
the OAuth2 wizard. I suppose the message preview would be similarly
affected. Meaning, there's some problem with the WebKitGTK or its
dependencies (like the gstreamer itself). Search your distro bug
tracker and if not filled yet open a bug report. They should
investigate it and fix it.

You mentioned that you opened the wizard in an external browser. Did
you go through the process to the end? The Evolution window tells you
what to do after you click on the "Open in Browser" button. Going
through the wizard in the external browser works fine for Gmail, if I
recall correctly. The message preview can still be affected by the
WebKitGTK problem though.

	Bye,
	Milan